ARC
It was created to innovate, partner, and invest to build community capacity and strengthen economic growth in Appalachia.
What is the Appalachian Regional Commission?
This instrument commonly associated with Appalachian music has orgins in Africa.
What is the banjo?
Wrote "The Hillbillies invade Chicago."
Who is Albert N. Votaw?
The folk hero to miners in Mingo County for his stand against the Baldwin-Felts Detectives. He and his deputy were killed as they approached a courthouse unarmed.
Who was Sheriff Sid Hatfield?
Without this highly essential mode of transportation company towns and the coal industry would not have existed in Appalachia.
What are railroads?
The Appalachian county that has the highest unemployment rate; 16.5 percent of people here have no job.
What is Magoffin County, Kentucky?
People commonly put rattlesnakes here to ward off evil. The devil lives here.
What is inside the fiddle?
This geographer and anthropologist from Louisville, KY wrote an article called "The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentuucky Mountains" that was published world wide. "Men are tall and lank, with thin bony faces, sallow skins, and dull hair. They hold themselves in a loose-jointed wayl their shoulders droop in walking and sitting."
Who is Ellen Churchill Semple?
People who wore bandanas around their necks to be easily identified by their friends during battle.
Who are rednecks?
The type of money people were paid for their work could only be spent at very specific places.
What is coal company script?
Approximately 30.5 percent of people in this county live in poverty.
What is Letcher County, Kentucky?
These aminals tell us something about the environment where they are found
What is a indicator species?
Wrote "Everyday Use."
Who is Alice Walker?
He visited with residents in Inez and Paintsville, KY. He met poverty face to face on the front porch of mountain homes.
Who is President Johnson?
In this place the the company owned everything. People could be forcably removed from their housing, etc. It was very difficult to break the cycle and move once you got in it.
What was life like in a coal company town or coal camp?
360, 11
What are the number of counties and states that originally formed Appalachia?
Pressure and heat created by the shifting and moving of rocks led to the formation of this fossil fuel
What is coal?
This article described hillbilly taverns: "Skid row dives, opium parlors, and other dens of iniquity are as safe as Sunday School picnics compared with the joints taken over by the Southern hillibillies and their shootin' cousins
What is "The Hillbillies Invade Chicago?"
Nearly 250 million gallons of coal started spilling out just after midnight and suffocated aquatic life and the destroyed the environment. The coal company involved dedicated over 500 people and 300 pieces of equipment to cleaning up this disaster.
What was the Martin County Coal Slurry Spill?
The lover of multiple women, this man was hanged for the 1866 death of a young, pregnant Laura Foster from Wilkes County, NC.
Who was Tom Dula / Tom Dooley?
420, 13
What are the number of counties and states that currently form the Appalachian region?
7 to 1
What is the ratio of jobs in other areas in relation to jobs in the coal industry?
Who is Silas House?
This disaster was called an "Act of God" by the owners of the coal company. Nearly 132 gallons of water and coal waste were released.
What was the Buffalo Creek Mining Disaster?
This song was first documented in 1666. It tells the tale of a man who dies after this lady refuses to kiss him.
What was the folk song Barbara Allen?